Syracuse's Jill-Lyn Euto homicide case turns 11 years old on Saturday

Syracuse, NY -- The hunt for Jill-Lyn Euto’s killer continues 11 years after her death, even though Euto’s mother, who kept the case in the public’s eye for years, died in an accidental fall in 2007.

Euto, 18, was killed on Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 28, 2001. Her body was discovered in her James Street apartment the next day by her mother, Joanne Browning.

Browning kept her child’s death in the public eye through candlelight vigils, talking to the press, going on television shows and checking in regularly with the Syracuse Police Department seeking any developments in the case.

Browning’s advocacy on the case may have played a part in motivating the detectives to keep on working the case hard, Sgt. Tom Connellan said Thursday.

Browning was injured Oct. 24, 2007, while working as part of a roofing crew working on an Erie Boulevard West garage and later died the next day in a Syracuse hospital.

Police said early on that the Euto case was very tough to crack, with no witnesses and no evidence linking anyone to the killing.

“We believe there are people other than the killer who know something and haven’t come forward yet,” Connellan said.

The case is featured on the Cold Case page on the Syracuse Police Department website.